I want to improve my e nglish accent and reduce gram m atical mistakes in my e nglish. How can I improve my accent? Before working on improving your accent and grammatical errors, there are few suggestions you may want to consider.

As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage guides, the word "use" with the sense "make ... is fully conjugable, although some of its tenses are for the time being not used in today's English. In the same

I know I get a bit snotty sometimes (my poor ... mean (some dialectal usethat is new to me?) by "kern". I wonder if I made the spell checker skip on the "asking" error. At any rate, you understood. Thanks. It's a jocular

Your use of English here would appear to be less than precise. It is not "explaining a mistake away" to say that "if you think that, you've got another thing coming" is an idiom, it is *explaining* it. What could it be

This is a non-sequitur argument. That the French word "lingerie" is pronounced in English with the "ay" of "hay," How strange. I would have thought the main oddity about the English pronunciation of lingerie was the

Tony Cooper wrote on 31 May 2004: I would not use it that way. And because you would not use it that way, no one may use it that. "You have nothing to point to but a history of incorrigible usage mistakes as your credentials". I'm

How can mistakes be incorrigible? Want a second shot at ... at the maker of the mistakes and not the mistake. Why? Incorrigible mistakes cannot be corrected total snafus. Corrigible mistakes are reversible errors. Special care should be taken when

I use to think the same thing. Apparently it's not true! used (common error, but still an error) Yes, it is an error, but unfortunately it's not as widely recognized to be an error as it should be. People like our own Professor Lawler

Hi everybody. I'm not native. But I've fallen in love with English. Would like to learn a new thing about ... I could. Now that I found this wonderful group, I guess I'll need your help quite often. Will appreciate that. Hm. You have

There's a new page on the alt-usage-english site, showing the pronunciation of some regular contributors' names. http://alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/ The page was created after a suggestion by Nobuko Iwasaki and subsequent